Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-04-29
TERRITORIAL ITEMS,

The w. c.. T. U. of Seattle has
opened coffee house.
Hop contracts cannot be made at a
, price exceeding 124 cents per pound.
Reynolds post, No. 80, G. A. R., was
recently organized at Blaine, What
com county. ~....
| A force of Union Pacific Surveyors
are running a route from Lewiston
down Snake river.
A new Postoffice has been establish
ed at Stuck, King County, with Sarah
J. Inman as postmistress.
All the available help is now en-
gagged in setting poles and in the work
OF cultivation of the hop vines.
The Canadian Pacific will soon start
the round trip excursion season be-
tween this coast and eastern cities.
On account of the backward season
not so large an area of new hop fields
will be planted out as was anticipated.
Measles prevails at Walla Walla
to great extent among the children,
and public school attendance has fall
en- off accordingly.
Colonel A. P. Curry, of Spokane
Falls, was elected Commander of the
Department of Washington, Grand
Army of the Republic.
At the Seatco coal mines about fifty
miners are employed, with day and
night crew. They are getting out from
80 to 100 tons day.
George Clark, extensive hop dealer
and land owner of Springfield, Otsego
county, N. Y, has failed, with liabili-
ties estimated at about 100000.
At Whitsburg a stock sale company
has been organized, the object of which
is to bring the buyers and sellers of
stock together at that point once each
month.
A Vancouver paper says: Spurious
silver dollars are about. They are a
good imitation, only thicker and
lighter than the genuine. They are
dated 1885.
When the Grand Lodge, knights of
Pythias, of this Territory, meets at
Vancouver on the 17th of Nav. Gov
ernor Semple will deliver the address
of welcome.
The Cascade mountains are still as
white with snow as they were in mid
winter. A fresh coat has been added
during the cool rainy period of the
last four weeks.
The telegraph line will be extended
across the mountains over the Stam-
pede tunnel at once, and all the timber
will be slashed for 100 feet on each
side of the wire.
The Rt. Rev. ]. A. Paddock, Episco-
pal Bishop of Washington Territory,
returned from the East, this week, and
will officiate at St. Luke's church at
Vancouver next Sunday.
L. F. Thompson, of Sumner, re-
ceived dispatch on Thursday from
New York, to the effect that the con-
dition of the hop crop is better than last
year at this time, and predicting q
larger yield.
DR.. Bingham, of Walla Walla, has
patented horseshoe which is made in
three pieces joihted together by
hinge. allowing it to expand while
the horse is travelling, preventing
many diseases of the hoof.
A new and most specific form of
contract has been adopted by hop
dealers, designed to give greater
certainty to these documents, and
avoid complications in delivery OF
goods and settlement of trades.
George Chambers, near Yelm, owns
farm of 1885 acres all in one block.
He has 100 head of cattle, twelve
horses and 100 sheep. He is large
farmer and also is a co-operater in all
movements tending to develope the
resources of the country and build it
up.
| Recently very long train-load of
logs was hauled to the boom by the
Puget Sound and Gray's Harbor rail-
road. The train was made up of
fifteen cars, four Of which were loaded
with 100 foot logs, and the remainder
with logs of smaller dimension, aggre-
eating about $4,000 feet of logs.
When business men have confidence
in the town, are united upon every
question that comes up for the best in
terest of the place, everyone else has
confidence, and strangers who come
in feel they have found a place they
can call home. New and expensive
residences are erected and everything
works for one common good. This is
the way cities are made. Thus re-
marks the Walla Walla Union.
A writer in the Aberdeen Herald
says, there is around South bay, at
Gray's Harbor, about $500 acres of
tide lands, 1000 of which could be
dyked at a cost not to exceed $5 per
acre in tracts of from 25 to 800 acres.
These lands can be brought to-day for
from $40 to $25 per acre. and with a
small outlay for dyking, will be in
every way as good as lands of the same
, kind that are selling and sought for at